A tropical paradise with a racial paradox — Getting on the plane to Salvador gives you an idea of what’s ahead. Party atmosphere and the happy fragrance of beautiful brown people of all tones. My pineal gland is telling me: this is where you belong. The plane bounces up and down as it tries to pierce through the…

I’m a massage addict, OK, but I have also discovered that getting great massages takes work. And it’s joyful work that involves spending a shit load of money, getting massages, and trying different masseuses. Finding your masseuse is a bit tricky matchmaking exchange because massages are intimate events. …

No matter what you think or desire — But the worst part of realizing some are above the law, and the most humiliating to our collective intelligence is that the above-the-law is a loser. This should worry us all. What does that say about the most powerful nation in the world and its citizens? But it hurts even…

You have to go to hell before you go to heaven — Christmas is a hard time for me. I don’t know why that is because everyone and everything indicate to me, I should be joyful. But the forced and fabricated invitation to joy is deeply irritating to me. But today is the 26th. I slept until nine after Christmas; this was…

The battle to have a work-life balance — It all boils down to this: no one wants to spend their entire week working in this shithole. And, of course, not all workplaces are shitholes, but most suck because they don’t allow a life-work balance — period. We became completely docile and subservient to the industrial model of slave…